The

Columbus Columbus is a Latinized version of the Italian surname "''Colombo''". It most commonly refers to: * Christopher Columbus (1451–1506), the Italian explorer * Columbus, Ohio, the capital city of the U.S. state of Ohio * Columbus, Georgia, a city i ...

– Auburn–

Opelika Opelika (pronounced ) is a city in and the county seat of Lee County in the east-central part of the U.S. state of Alabama. It is a principal city of the Auburn-Opelika Metropolitan Area. As of the 2020 census, the population of Opelika is ...

, GA– AL Combined Statistical Area is a trading and marketing area made up of six counties in Georgia and three in Alabama. The statistical area includes two

metropolitan areas A metropolitan area or metro is a region consisting of a densely populated urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories which share industries, commercial areas, transport network, infrastructures and housing. A metropolitan area usually ...

: the Columbus metropolitan area and the Auburn–Opelika metropolitan area. As of 2023, the CSA had a population of 566,030. The Combined Statistical Area consists of the: * Columbus metropolitan area, population 323,768. * Auburn–Opelika metropolitan area, population 201,585. *

Alexander City Micropolitan area The Alexander City Micropolitan Statistical Area is a micropolitan statistical area that consisted of one county in Alabama, anchored by the city of Alexander City, as defined by the United States Census Bureau. The current area is the second in ...

, population 40,677

Counties

In Georgia

* Chattahoochee County pop. 9,565 * Harris County pop. 34,668 * Marion County pop. 7,498 *

Muscogee County Muscogee County is a county located on the central western border of the U.S. state of Georgia named after the Muscogee that originally inhabited the land with its western border with the state of Alabama that is formed by the Chattahooche ...

pop. 206,922 * Stewart County pop. 5,314 * Talbot County pop. 5,733

In Alabama

* Lee County pop. 163,461 * Russell County pop. 57,938 *

Tallapoosa County Tallapoosa County is a county located in the east-central portion of the U.S. state of Alabama."ACES Tallapoosa County Office" (links/history), Alabama Cooperative Extension System (ACES), 2007, webpageACES-Tallapoosa As of the 2020 census, t ...

pop. 40,677

Communities

The communities (both incorporated and unincorporated) in the combined statistical area are as follows. Bold name indicates the principal cities in the CSA: ;In Alabama: ;In Georgia:

Education institutes

Higher education

Public

Auburn University Auburn University (AU or Auburn) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Auburn, Alabama, United States. With more than 26,800 undergraduate students, over 6,100 post-graduate students, and a tota ...

Columbus State University Columbus State University is a public university in Columbus, Georgia, United States. Founded as Columbus College in 1958, the university was established and is administered by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. History ...

Columbus Technical College Columbus Technical College (commonly called Columbus Tech) is a two-year technical college located in Columbus, Georgia, United States. It is governed by Technical College System of Georgia The Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG), for ...

Chattahoochee Valley Community College Chattahoochee Valley Community College is a public community college in Phenix City, Alabama. It serves residents of Russell County and parts of Bullock, Lee, Macon, and Barbour Counties, as well as the Columbus, Georgia metropolitan area ...

(Phenix City) *

Georgia Military College Georgia Military College (GMC) is a Public college, public military junior college in Milledgeville, Georgia. It is divided into the junior college, a military junior college program, high school, middle school, and elementary school. It was ori ...

- main campus in

Milledgeville, Georgia Milledgeville () is a city in and the county seat of Baldwin County, Georgia, Baldwin County, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States. Founded in 1803 along the Oconee River, it served as the List of current and former capital cities in the ...

Southern Union State Community College Southern Union State Community College (SUSCC) is a public community college in Wadley, Alabama. Southern Union offers academic, technical, health science, and social science programs to the east-central Alabama and west-central Georgia regio ...

(Opelika) *

Troy University Troy University is a public university in Troy, Alabama, United States. It was founded in 1887 as Troy State Normal School within the Alabama State University System, and is now the flagship university of the Troy University System. It was one ...

- campuses in Columbus, Fort Benning, and Phenix City, main campus in

Troy, Alabama Troy is a city in and the county seat of Pike County, Alabama, United States. It was formally incorporated on February 4, 1843. Between 1763 and 1783, the area where Troy sits was part of the colony of British West Florida.The Economy of Bri ...

Private, for profit

* Christian Life School of Theology (Columbus) *

Miller-Motte Technical College Miller-Motte College, formerly Miller-Motte Technical College, is a system of private for-profit technical colleges throughout the southeastern United States.Miller-Motte Technical College website, http://www.miller-motte.edu/ Accessed 2009.04.14 ...

- main campus in

Wilmington, North Carolina Wilmington is a port city in New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States. With a population of 115,451 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of municipalities in North Carolina, eighth-most populous city in the st ...

* Rivertown School of Beauty (Columbus) * Southeastern Beauty School (Columbus) *

Strayer University Strayer University is a private for-profit university headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1892 as Strayer's Business College and later became Strayer College, before being granted university status in 1998. Strayer University ...

- main campus in

Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore is the List of municipalities in Maryland, most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland. With a population of 585,708 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census and estimated at 568,271 in 2024, it is the List of United States ...

Primary and secondary education

Transportation

Airports

Below is a list of the airports in the greater area, followed by their number of enplanements (commercial passenger boardings) that occurred at the airport in calendar year 2008.

Public

Auburn-Opelika Robert G. Pitts Airport Auburn University Regional Airport with the Robert G. Pitts Field is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 kilometre, km) east of the central business district of Auburn, Alabama, Auburn, a city in Lee County, Alabama, U ...

, 68 * Columbus Airport , 51,288

Private

* Harris County Airport , 116 * Jones Light Aviation Airport , n/a *

Lawson Army Airfield Lawson Army Airfield is a military airport located at Fort Benning in Chattahoochee County, Georgia, south of the city of Columbus, Georgia. It is Fort Benning's primary force projection platform. Facilities Lawson Army Airfield has one r ...

, 13,702 * Marion County Airport , n/a

Interstates

Interstate 85 Interstate 85 (I-85) is a major Interstate Highway in the Southeastern United States. Its southern terminus is at an interchange with I-65 in Montgomery, Alabama; its northern terminus is an interchange with I-95 in Petersburg, Virginia, ...

* Interstate 185

Principal Highways

U.S. Route 27 U.S. Route 27 or U.S. Highway 27 (US 27) is a north–south United States Numbered Highway in the Southern and Midwestern U.S. The southern terminus is at US 1 in Miami, Florida. The northern terminus is at Interstate 69 (I ...

U.S. Route 29 U.S. Route 29 or U.S. Highway 29 (US 29) is a north–south United States Numbered Highway that runs for from Pensacola, Florida, to Ellicott City, Maryland, just west of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, in the Eastern United Stat ...

U.S. Route 80 U.S. Route 80 or U.S. Highway 80 (US 80) is a major east–west United States Numbered Highway in the Southern United States, much of which was once part of the early auto trail known as the Dixie Overland Highway. As the "0" in the ...

U.S. Route 280 U.S. Route 280 (US 280) is a spur of U.S. Highway 80. It currently runs for 392 miles (631 km) from Blitchton, Georgia, at US 80 to Birmingham, Alabama at I-20/ I-59. For much of its route, US 280 travels through rural areas and smaller ...

U.S. Route 431 U.S. Route 431 (US 431) is a spur of U.S. Route 31. It currently travels for approximately from U.S. Route 231, US 231/Alabama State Route 210 and U.S. Route 231 Business (Dothan, Alabama), US 231 Business (US 231 Bus. ...

State Highways

Alabama State Route 14 State Route 14 (SR 14) is a major east-to-west state highway in the U.S. state of Alabama. Spanning , the highway begins at the Mississippi state line at the terminus of Mississippi Highway 69 (MS 69) and connects the cities of ...

Alabama State Route 26 * Alabama 51

Alabama State Route 51 State Route 51 (SR 51) is a state highway in the southeastern and east-central parts of the U.S. state of Alabama. The southern terminus of the highway is at an intersection with U.S. Route 84 (US 84) near New Brockton. T ...

Alabama State Route 147 * Alabama 165

Alabama State Route 165 State Route 165 (SR 165) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Alabama. It runs through Holy Trinity, Alabama in the eastern part of the state. Its northern terminus is at U.S. Route 431 (US 431) south of Phenix City, Alabama, and its ...

Alabama State Route 169 State Route 169 (SR 169) is a state highway that serves as a north-south connection between Opelika and Seale through Lee and Russell Counties. SR 169 intersects US 431 at its southern terminus and SR 51 at its northern terminus. Route de ...

Alabama State Route 267 State Route 267 (SR 267) was a state highway in Alabama and a loop route of Alabama State Route 147, SR 147, bypassing downtown Auburn, Alabama, Auburn to the west. For its entire length, SR 267 was known as the Shug Jordan Park ...

Georgia State Route 18 State Route 18 (SR 18) is a state highway that travels west-to-east through portions of Troup, Harris, Meriwether, Pike, Lamar, Monroe, Jones, Wilkinson, and Twiggs counties in the western and central parts of the U.S. state ...

Georgia State Route 22 State Route 22 (SR 22) is a state highway that travels southwest-to-northeast in an eastern arc through portions of Muscogee, Talbot, Taylor, Upson, Crawford, Bibb, Jones, Baldwin, Hancock, Taliaferro, Oglethorpe, and Madis ...

Georgia State Route 26 State Route 26 (SR 26) is a State highway (US), state highway that travels west-to-east through portions of Chattahoochee County, Georgia, Chattahoochee, Marion County, Georgia, Marion, Schley County, Georgia, Schley, Macon County, G ...

Georgia State Route 27 State Route 27 (SR 27) is a state highway that travels west-to-east through portions of Quitman, Stewart, Webster, Sumter, Dooly, Pulaski, Dodge, Telfair, Jeff Davis, Appling, Wayne, and Glynn counties in the southern par ...

Georgia State Route 30 State Route 30 (SR 30) is a state highway that travels west-to-east through portions of Marion, Sumter, Crisp, Wilcox, Dodge, Telfair, Wheeler, Montgomery, Toombs, Tattnall, Evans, Bryan, Effingham, and Chatham counties in ...

Georgia State Route 36 State Route 36 (SR 36) is a state highway that travels southwest-to-northeast through portions of Harris, Talbot, Upson, Lamar, Butts, and Newton counties in the central part of the U.S. state of Georgia. The highways connects t ...

Georgia State Route 39 State Route 39 (SR 39) is a state highway that travels south-to-north through portions of Seminole, Miller, Early, Clay, Quitman, and Stewart counties in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Georgia. The route proceeds north from it ...

Georgia State Route 41 State Route 41 (SR 41) is a state highway that runs south-to-north through portions of Calhoun, Randolph, Terrell, Webster, Marion, Talbot, Meriwether, and Coweta counties in the southwestern and west-central parts of the U.S. sta ...

Georgia State Route 85 State Route 85 (SR 85) is a State highway (US), state highway in the west-central part of the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It travels within portions of Muscogee County, Georgia, Muscogee, Harris County, Georgia, Harr ...

Georgia State Route 90 State Route 90 (SR 90) is a State highway (US), state highway that travels southeast-to-northwest through portions of Atkinson County, Georgia, Atkinson, Coffee County, Georgia, Coffee, Irwin County, Georgia, Irwin, Ben Hill County, ...

Georgia State Route 96 State Route 96 (SR 96) is a state highway that travels west-to-east through portions of Talbot, Taylor, Crawford, Peach, Houston, Twiggs, and Wilkinson counties in the west-central and central parts of the U.S. state of Georgia. ...

Georgia State Route 103 * Georgia 116

Georgia State Route 116 State Route 116 (SR 116) is a State highway (US), state highway that runs west-to-east through portions of Harris County, Georgia, Harris and Talbot County, Georgia, Talbot County (United States), counties in the west-central part of the ...

Georgia State Route 127 State Route 127 (SR 127) is a state highway that runs west-to-east through portions of Marion, Taylor, Macon, and Houston counties in the west-central and central parts of the U.S. state of Georgia. It connects the north-central part of ...

Georgia State Route 137 State Route 137 (SR 137) is a southwest-to-northeast state highway in the west-central part of the U.S. state of Georgia. The highway travels from an SR 355 in an unincorporated part of Marion County to the west of Buena Vist ...

Georgia State Route 190 State Route 190 (SR 190) is a state highway that runs west–east mostly through F. D. Roosevelt State Park and Roosevelt's Little White House Historic Site. It is known as Scenic Heights Road and Pine Mountain Highway. It connects th ...

Georgia State Route 208 State Route 208 (SR 208) is a state highway located in the west-central part of the U.S. state of Georgia. It runs east from a point between Columbus and Hamilton. It passes through Harris County, Talbot County, and Taylor County. Rout ...

Georgia State Route 219 State Route 219 (SR 219) is a state highway that runs south-to-north through portions of Muscogee, Harris, Troup, and Heard counties in the west-central part of the U.S. state of Georgia. It runs from Columbus north to a point southwe ...

Georgia State Route 240 State Route 240 (SR 240) is a southeast-northwest state highway located in the west-central part of the U.S. state of Georgia. It travels through portions of Macon, Schley, Marion, and Talbot counties. Route description SR ...

Georgia State Route 315 State Route 315 (SR 315) is a east-west state highway in the west-central part of the U.S. state of Georgia. The highway travels from SR 219 at Goat Rock Road in southwestern Harris County to SR 208 in Olive Branch ...

Georgia State Route 352 * Georgia 354

Georgia State Route 354 State Route 354 (SR 354) is a , arc-shaped state highway located entirely within Harris County in the west-central part of the U.S. state of Georgia. It starts out in a north-northeasterly direction and curves to a westerly direction ...

Georgia State Route 355 * Georgia 520

Georgia State Route 520 State Route 520 (SR 520), also known as the South Georgia Parkway, is a List of state routes in Georgia, state highway in the southern part of the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It travels from the Alabama state line at ...

Georgia State Route 540 Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the South Caucasus * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the southeastern United States Georgia may also refer to: People and fictional characters * Georgia (name), a list of peo ...

Sports

Shopping

Below are some notable shopping centers in the area: * Columbus Park Crossing (Columbus) * Peachtree Mall (Columbus) * The Landings (Columbus) * The Shoppes at Bradley Park (Columbus) * TigerTown (Opelika) * Auburn Mall (Auburn)

Notable people

References

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